A once in a lifetime concert… and that was all it was meant to be to raise
much needed money, but due to needing to raise more much money they released all
the captured fotage from various networks and this is the result, it has
upscaled for audio and video slightly, but for the time period it was in it is
really great!!
want to relive the nostalgia-!

We are very pleased with our purchase, it is such a MUST have in your
collection. We were impressed of Mighty Ape service: bought on Wednesday late
night it was on our door step on Friday morning. Recommend to all.

Description

Live Aid – 4 disc DVD Boxed Set with over 10 hours of content! Including
live performances, videos, documentary & more.

Billed as The Greatest Show on Earth, Live Aid was described by the
world’s media as ‘The Global Jukebox’, ‘The Day Rock and Roll Changed
the World’ and ‘The greatest live show ever’.

Live Aid was cited as the second most memorable event in two generations and
only two weeks ago was defined, in a consumer poll, as the single greatest
moment in the 50-year history of rock ‘n’ roll, beating not only the launch
of MTV and Elvis’ first record but also topping the poll ahead of the seminal
festival of the 60’s, Woodstock.

Live Aid, the greatest artists playing the greatest music for the
world’s poorest people and changing the global political agenda forever.

Live Aid was uniquely staged simultaneously on two continents and features an
unbelievable line up of major Rock & Pop acts that took to the stage in July
1985 at London’s Wembley and Philadelphia’s JFK Stadiums.

Even today, after almost 20 years, the line up of stars put together by Bob
Geldof in a matter of months remains both remarkable and unsurpassed. It is a
who’s who of contemporary music; united in their unequivocal support for Live
Aid to prevent mass death for starving people.

Since that great day this historic concert footage has remained locked away
and the announcement of its imminent DVD release is therefore indeed momentous.
Unscrupulous bootleggers have tried to sell the concert on the black market but
have been shut down and prosecuted on a number of occasions.

This has forced the Band Aid Trust to seek permission from all the artists to
be included in the four-disc Live Aid set, an eventuality that was never
anticipated at the time of Live Aid.

Now in time for the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and after 19 years in the
vaults, Warner Vision International will release those unforgettable
performances on a Live Aid, 4 DVD package out on 8th November.

Currently in production with the master videotapes and over 10 hours of
performances the DVD will be superbly presented and re-mastered in multi-channel
surround sound and stereo audio options. Within the set additional gems include
the “Food, Trucks & Rock ‘n’ Roll” documentary (sub-titled in
8 languages) and inspirational Live Aid performances from other parts of
the globe.

Live Aid on DVD is the most eagerly anticipated music DVD of the decade.

The Band Aid Trust is obliged to maximise its assets and in a hotly-contested
open bidding invitation Warners secured a licence to represent and distribute,
worldwide, the Live Aid 4-disc set. Live Aid remains the asset of the Band
Aid Trust.

Warner Vision International’s Ray Still commented. “There is only one
music event that begs the question "Where were you on that day?” and that is
Live Aid. Over 1.5 billion TV viewers tuned in, on July 13 1985, to the
extraordinary event that was Live Aid.

It's an understatement to say that it’s a great pleasure and an honour
for Warner Vision to be involved in bringing all the extraordinary moments and
performances that encapsulated Live Aid to DVD for the first time”.

Bob Geldof added: “Twenty years ago they not only played “real good for
free” they took an issue that was nowhere on the agenda of the political world
and placed it at the very top.

They also kept, directly or indirectly, millions of people alive and in so
doing they reminded 1.5 billion people that individuals are not powerless in
the face of monstrous human tragedy.

By buying the Live Aid DVD that day continues far off into some distant but
hopefully better future for all those people in whose name those great artists
played”.

Since the concert the Band Aid Trust in the UK alone has raised over $50
million and continues to operate in famine affected countries in Africa.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:

1.

Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas- (Menu Music)

2.

Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas- (Video)

3.

Various: We Are The World (Video)

4.

Regimental Band Of The Coldstream Guards: Royal Salute

5.

Status Quo: Rockin' All Over The World

6.

Status Quo: Caroline

7.

Style Council: Internationalists

8.

Style Council: Walls Come Tumbling Down

9.

Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays

10.

Boomtown Rats: Drag Me Down

11.

Adam Ant: Vive Le Rock

12.

Ultravox: Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

13.

Ultravox: Vienna

14.

Spandau Ballet: Only When You Leave

15.

Spandau Ballet: True

16.

Elvis Costello: All You Need Is Love

17.

Nik Kershaw: Wouldn't It Be Good

18.

Sade: Your Love Is King

19.

Sting: Roxanne

20.

Phil Collins: Against All Odds

21.

Sting & Phil Collins: Every Breath You Take

22.

Howard Jones: Hide & Seek

23.

Bryan Ferry: Slave To Love

24.

Bryan Ferry: Jealous Guy

25.

Paul Young: Do They Know It's Christmas-

26.

Paul Young: Come Back And Stay

27.

Paul Young & Alison Moyet: That's The Way Love Is

28.

Paul Young: Every Time You Go Away

29.

Bryan Adams: Kids Wanna Rock

30.

Bryan Adams: Summer Of '69

31.

U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday

32.

U2: Bad (featuring excerpts of Satellite Of Love, Ruby Tuesday, Sympathy For The Devil and Walk On The Wild Side